Kitty Wins the Vote
“…[a] remarkable feature of the election is the remarkable success of Mrs K. B. Cuthbert. That it is an achievement we do not think there is any dispute. When she entered the list two weeks ago, she was practically unknown, and it would have been a brave man who would have placed her fourth in…
Kitty’s First Stand
In September 1911, the following appeared under ‘Apprehensions Sought’ in the Police Gazette: From the Police Gazette 29th September 1911; accessed via FindMyPast My great-grandfather Bernard Cuthbert was actually just 20 years old at the time. He had never been in trouble with the law before and came from a reputable family – his late…
Leonard & Eva
Like many people, I was eagerly awaiting the release of the 1921 Census of England and Wales in January. I purchased several census images that first day but it was a few days later before I realised something rather sweet on one of them. Not particularly important in the grand scheme of things, but something…
The Lewis Brothers & the Lodger Franchise
You never really know what you are going to find in the newspaper archives. For some families you’ll find all kinds of little titbits, for others you’ll find nothing. I found two interesting and intriguing articles about the brothers of my great-great-grandmother, that list exactly who was living in their family home during 1902 and…
Kitty & her Chow Chows
I have always been interested in my family history, particularly my great-grandmother and namesake Kitty, and before I learnt how to find censuses and official records last year, I used to occasionally google Kitty’s name to see what I could find. A few years ago I discovered that the website ChowTales.com had some wonderful pictures…
Kitty in the First World War
My great-grandmother Kate “Kitty” Beatrice Cuthbert, née Williams, is one of the most interesting characters in my family history. A successful breeder of Chow Chows, a shop proprietor, a councillor, a defender of neglected wives and children, but before all those things, when she was 20 years old, she worked at the Australian Imperial Force…
‘Reaping Extraordinary’
In the newspaper archives (which, by the way, I access via Find My Past), you can find a lot of very tragic and/or unpleasant stories, and this is usually all I find (if anything) when researching my London and Essex ancestors. However, searching for my Cornish and Devon ancestors has resulted in a few happy,…
The beginning
I don’t know why it took me so long to actually start researching my family history. It’s a topic that always interested me, and every now and then I’d google the names of my great-grandparents, but aside from a couple of photos of my great-grandmother, I never found anything. I knew my grandad had been…
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